The Department of Philosophy is offering a 5-day summer course on Research Reproducibility
in Science as part of the University of Utah’s campus-wide initiative on Research
Reproducibility. The course is aimed at undergrads, grads, postdocs, and other scholars
working in the natural and social sciences, as well as those working in the philosophy
of science and related fields. The course will provide an in-depth exploration of
conceptual and practical issues surrounding research reproducibility in the sciences,
and will teach students practical strategies for making their own work more reproducible.

The Department of Philosophy is hosting a 5-day seminar in conjunction with the Philosophy
of Biology at the Mountains (POBAM) Workshop. The seminar is designed for advanced
undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and other junior scholars in philosophy
and biology. The seminar will include background readings and discussion on topics
relevant to the workshop talks, and will provide an opportunity for students to engage
in depth with the topics and speakers at the workshop.

Biological lineages move through time, space, and each other. As they do, they diversify,
diverge, and grade away from and into one another. One result of this is genealogical
discordance, i.e., the lineages of a biological entity may have different histories.
We see this on many levels, from microbial networks, to holobionts, to population-level
lineages.March 23-25, 2017